Jen McCown from midnightdba.com started a useful (to me anyways) set of homework assignments called Applied SQL. Each post has a homework assignment for us. This first one has been useful to me in order to make myself read Books Online and understand where information comes from, rather than just running a script when I [Keep reading…]

System tables have lots of interesting and useful information stored on all facets of SQL server. Generally speaking, whenever I find a script that shows useful information, I store that script away for future use. I then run the script whenever I need the information without really thinking about it. Jen McCown from midnightdba.com started [Keep reading…]